A case study of a commodity hedge fund making the unusual choice of not only building their own infrastructure but doing so primarily in Clojure. I will be presenting our road to Clojure, how it came to shape our business infrastructure, what we use it for and some lessons learnt in the process...

To enter into the new era of smart cities design and planning cities, the Greater London Authority's team has developed the Infrastructure 2050 Application Mapping application to support decision making and improved coordination of infrastructure investments between all the stakeholders...

When devops gets mentioned, the discussion tends to fall in two parts: the technology part and the cultural part. When devops gets mentioned the discussion tends to fall in two parts: the technology part and the cultural part.

The simplicity of the solutions delivered by cloud providers should remove the burden from the shoulders of busy Dev and Ops people and give the possibility to focus on real customer's needs. Unfortunately, the truth is not so simple. When you start your journey in the cloud you will discover...

Experiment control software presents many interesting challenges: it requires a combination of concurrent communication with several external devices as well as real-time data charting. Computationally demanding signal processing in software is often also needed.

Containers are here to stay and it's time to get your infrastructure in order. While containers address the application packaging and distribution problem there is a huge gap between deploying applications and managing them in production. We must move beyond the single machine programming...

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the "A(utomation)" in the DevOps "CALMS" model. It treats dynamic infrastructure as a software system, which means development tools and agile practices like TDD, CI, and CD can be used. Most development and operations teams are making at least...